Thilo’s music inspires and connects so readily with both the listener and the player.

Jeremy S. Brown

We had the pleasure of working with Thilo on a few occasions. He is a fantastic sound engineer and producer and did a wonderful job on our first CD. And his skills didn’t stop there! He also wrote a piece for the quartet which we performed at the world saxophone congress in 2012. His attention to detail is superb and his writing very idiomatic for the instrument and performer. A multi-talented musician!

The Hitch-Hiker was screened at the Alberta Spirit Gala during the Calgary International Film Festival on September 27th, 2015. On September 26th it was screened during the Jasper Short Film Festival where it won People’s Choice.

The Album “Catch” by the Sirocco Saxophone Quartet was released in August on the label Encora. The wonderful musicians perform never-released works by living composers. The album also contains “Back to Bar 190!”, one of Thilo’s recent compositions for saxophone quartet. Thilo produced, recorded, and mixed this album and we are all very pleased to …

“La Danza” by the Sirocco Saxophone Quartet is now available. This album was recorded in Germany in May 2014 and edited, mixed, and mastered in Canada in June in Canada. Thilo worked as recording producer, balance engineer and did all post production. This journey through richly contrasting styles of dance is enlivened by the vocal versatility of the saxophone quartet and the distinct personalities of the different instruments.

A few CDs were released over the past few months. Thilo worked as recording engineer during the recording sessions in Lithuania and Russia in summer 2012. Please click on the links in the portfolio sections for more information.

BIO

Thilo was born and raised in Germany. He received his first musical training on the violin at the age of seven and later started playing clarinet, saxophone, and piano. For his studies in Art of Sound (Music Production) and classical clarinet at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, Thilo moved to the Netherlands. After taking composition lessons with Roderik de Man and obtaining a masters degree, Thilo studied sound design and composition in contexts at the Faculty of Media Technology of the Utrecht School of Arts in Hilversum. He worked as freelance composer, record producer, and assistant producer for radio4 - the national classical radio station of the Netherlands - before becoming assistant professor in the department of music at the University of Lethbridge in Canada.
Thilo composes autonomous music as well as for various media contexts. His works have been performed in England, Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Tanzania, Spain, Canada, and Italy. Thilo's music is often described as contemporary and accessible. His first score for Canadian film was nominated for the Alberta Film and Television Awards in 2014. As sound designer Thilo frequently works on feature films, animations, and audio dramas.
As a record producer/sound engineer Thilo has worked with various solo artists and orchestras in Europe and North America.
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